MISSISSIPPI RIVER - pilot onboard - helmsman on action -

Many of you saw the last video and we were traveling South through the canal, but this video is from our Northbound transit.
Enjoy the footage and soon I hope to be back to work again. Waiting for the results of my physical exams to clear.

A handy and simple tool to determine in a minimum time what is really needed as tug assistance, is the Bollard Pull Calculator which calculates in an approximate way the total required tug power for ships in various conditions of wind and current. This tool can be loaded as an app on the smart phone.

Shipping Australia is delighted to welcome the Australasian Marine Pilots Institute as our newest corporate associate member

Pilot disembarkation from ship (kakinada)
Editors note:
The shown protections are very massive in our opinion.
What does our community think about?

Since October, pilots from Kiel have been unable to use their offshore transfer station. Long detours and limited rest periods have complicated their workdays, with no end in sight.

Pilot boat "Muir Pilot" departing Pirate Harbour

Oct. 13, 2022
Harbor pilot departing the NCL Prima in rough seas.

Delivering the pilot to the Aurora Tanker in Brunei Darussalam.

Evergreen Shipping’s new 24,000 TEU container ship EVER ACE arrived at the Port of Taipei for the first time today, August 8, breaking a record for the largest ship by tonnage to dock at the port.